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Authorities expanding
search in Lanikai
for woman

By Rod Ohira
and Jaymes K. Song
Star-Bulletin

Police and fire department searchers resumed looking for a missing woman in Lanikai and planned to expand the search today.

Police were also looking into a reported argument Monday night between an Asian woman and Caucasian man along Aalapapa Drive. A woman may have been assaulted between 8 and 8:30 p.m. on Aalapapa Drive, police said. The incident occurred near where police and firefighters have been searching for the missing 33-year-old Taiwanese woman from New York.

Ming Fang Lee was reported missing Monday at 10 p.m. Police found a beach towel, hat, book and sun-tan lotion belonging to Lee on the beach.

Police planned to go door to door today to see if Lanikai residents had seen her. The Fire Department also continued searching the waters off Lanikai and the Mokulua Islands. They and Department of Land and Natural Resources officers planned to search the mountains above Lanikai today.

The missing woman was staying for a few days on the upper-level of a two-story hillside house at the corner of Aalapapa Drive and Mokulua Drive, about a half-mile from the public access to the beach site where her personal items were found.

Homicide Lt. William Kato and three detectives were at the scene yesterday afternoon but the case is still classified as a missing person.

Police interviewed the man she was staying with and searched the woman's Waikiki apartment yesterday but said they found no new leads or evidence.